Activities of Nicole KIIL-NIELSEN related to 2012/2063(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the EU 2011 report on policy coherence for development
Amendments (5)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Notes that climate change disproportionately affects women, both in health terms, as more women die as a result of natural disasters, and in terms of economic, migratory and social pressures, due to the discrimination and gendered social roles which still characterise our societies; consequently, one of the main criteria for the success of PCD must be the mainstreaming of cross-cutting gender-related issues, so as both to ensure that sexual equality is not ignored when the various policies are formulated and implemented and to prevent those policies as a whole from having a counter- productive impact on equality between men and women;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Reaffirms the importance of taking account of the situation of women, not simply as a vulnerable section of the population, but also as active facilitators of development policies; notes, in this context, that women are responsible for 80% of farming in Africa, even if it is still rare for them to have the possibility of owning the land they cultivate; calls, therefore, not only for agricultural and fisheries policies to be integrated into PCD because of their impact on development, but also for them to be assessed in terms of their differential impact on women and men respectively;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that the policy of promoting equality between men and women should not only be the subject of a specific budget heading in the context of development policies but should also be regarded as a cross-cutting issue, since every policy that has an impact on society affects women and men differently, given the persistence of gendered roles in society and the fact that PCD offers a practical means of preventing negative externalities from adversely affecting equality between men and women;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Stresses the importance of including women, and civil society organisations working on behalf of women’s rights and equality between women and men, from the moment that development policies are formulated, particularly by providing training on the subject of gender-related issues in the European External Action Service and EU delegations in third countries; stresses that such training must both raise general awareness of issues relating to gender and equality between women and men and also propose practical and country-specific approaches to influencing the social mores which are an obstacle to equality by using the various means at the EU’s disposal including, in particular, PCD;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Affirms that, while the success of development policies and, consequently, of PCD cannot be measured solely by general indicators which have already demonstrated their limitations, such as trends in GDP per inhabitant, other indicators, such as those relating to equality between men and women, should be able to provide a fuller picture of the overall effect of development policies; data, broken down by gender, must therefore be collected on the spot in order to evaluate and enhance the impact of PCD;